Microsoft's gesture-sensing 360 console add-on, the Kinect, enters the Guinness World Book of Records-- not for being the device most likely to cause its users to make fools of themselves, but as fastest selling CE device ever. So far, at least.
Beating even the continually fast selling iDevices, the Kinect sold an average of 133333 units a day W.W. in its first 60 days of sale-- a total of 8m units sold from 4 November 2010 to 3 January 2011.
Microsoft has every reason to be happy with the Kinect-- as one of its most successful recent offerings, Microsoft even warned of unit shortages in January. The device even moved beyond gaming, with features like control-free Hulu and the promise of PC support. It also proved popular with the hacker community-- so much so that Microsoft is now releasing a non-commercial SDK for the Kinect this spring (no doubt after watching any of Kinect hack videos available online, which entertain and amuse in equal measures).